[Minorcompositions] A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze

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*A Little Philosophical Lexicon of Anarchism from Proudhon to Deleuze*
Daniel Colson
Translated by Jesse Cohn

A provocative exploration of hidden affinities and genealogies in 
anarchist thought

Is the thought of Gilles Deleuze secretly linked to Pierre-Joseph 
Proudhon’s declaration: “I am an anarchist”? Has anarchism, for more 
than a century and a half, been secretly Deleuzian? In the guise of a 
playfully unorthodox lexicon, sociologist Daniel Colson presents an 
exploration of hidden affinities between the great philosophical 
heresies and “a thought too scandalous to take its place in the official 
edifice of philosophy,” with profound implications for the way we 
understand social movements.

“In a creative and yet precise way, Daniel Colson brings together two 
lines of thought – philosophy from Spinoza to Leibniz – and anarchism 
from Proudhon to the present day. At their intersection he discovers an 
affirmative and expressive anarchism that rejects all forms of 
resentment and negativity. This is anarchism as joy and empowerment 
rather than sadness and accusation.” – Todd May, author of The Political 
Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism

“Colson’s Lexicon is an inspiring resource for conceptualizing 
anarchism: it offers new, exciting paths for exploring anarchism with 
French thought and French thought with anarchism.” – Iwona Janicka, 
author of Theorizing Contemporary Anarchism

“Offers a line of thinking that connects disparate thinkers ranging from 
Proudhon to Simondon to Nietzsche to Deleuze… What emerges is a radical 
challenge to the insistence on dialectic resolution, to occult left 
teleologies, and to the certainty that past anarchists have nothing to 
say to contemporary anarchists.” – James Martel, author of The 
Misinterpellated Subject

Bio: Daniel Colson is a professor of sociology at the Université de 
St.-Étienne in Lyon. He is the author of Trois Essais de Philosophie 
Anarchiste: Islam, Histoire, Monadologie (2004) as well as several 
studies of French labor history.

Jesse Cohn is an associate professor of English at Purdue University 
Northwest. He is the author of Anarchism and the Crisis of 
Representation: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics, Politics (2006) and 
Underground Passages: Anarchist Resistance Culture, 1848–2011 (2014).

PDF available freely online: http://www.minorcompositions.info/?p=902
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Release to the book trade February 2019

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